News Archive 2008

Sunday 16 March 2008

Our Palm Sunday meetings were led by our commanding officers, and during our Holiness meeting the Brigade contributed Andrew Blyths 'Compelled By Love'. During our Easter Songs of praise' it was requested that we sing 'We Saw Love', which added greatly to the service.

Monday 10 March 2008

The Brigade are grateful to Mike Shankster for taking the time to do new photographs of the Brigade. Photographs will include full group , sectional, locals, timbrels and informal settings. We look forward to seeing the pictures soon. Next Monday is the very popular Curry Night at the New Shimla in Renfrew.

Sunday 9 March 2008

The Brigade were delighted to witness the dediction of Songsters Elanor and David O'Mays baby daughter, Bethan, during our Holiness meeting. During the meeting the Brigade featured Andrew Blyths lovely arrangement of Just as I am.

Saturday 8 March 2008

The Govan Songsters website has now passed 70,000 hits since coming online at the end of 2005. The site has had hits from almost a thousand cities in over 100 countries. Govan Songsters would like to thank you for your interest in the Brigade

Sunday 2 March 2008

A busy weekend for the Brigade commenced on Saturday evening with a festival at Hamilton Baptist Church. Due to family illness S/Ldr Chic Ramsay was unable to be present, however the Brigade provided a very well received programme of music to the large congregation. Items included God of my praise, In Jesus Name, Singin' in the heavenly choir and His strength is perfect. Soloist for the evening was Moira Wilson, and the Timbrels played to 'Victory'. So well was the Brigade received that an encore was requested in 'His Strength Is Perfect'. We are indebted to Sarah Stuart for her accompaniments.

Our Sunday meetings were led by Majors Helen and Derek Tyrell, with the Brigade contributing 'Take My Life' in the Holiness Meeting, and Jesus is Alive in our Praise and Salvation meeting

Sunday 24 February 2008Our meetings on our Self Denial Altar service Sunday were led by Lt Colonels Colin and Barbara Tucker, and the Brigade sang Darren Bartletts 'Grace Alone' during our Holiness Meeting and 'Compelled By Love' during our Praise and Salvation meeting.

Our rehearsal tomorrow evening with concentrate on items for our festival at Hamilton Baptist Church on Saturday. As our regular accompanist, Brian Allan, is unavailable the Brigade are delighted that Sarah Stuart is able to assist us at our rehearsal and at Hamilton on Saturday

Saturday 23 February 2008

The Brigade, Scottish Summer Camp Ensemble, and soloist Olwyn Mathie (Bellshill) with compere June Brogan (BBC - River City) provided an excellent programme of music in aid of the Scottish School of Music and Drama, raising £500.

The Brigade provided a number of items including God of my praise, In Jesus Name, Precious Jesus, The Christian Mission and Total Praise in which we were joined by camp members from previous years. The Brass Ensemble provided a range of items to suit all tastes from Baroque to Swing and featured a number of soloists, all playing to a very high standard. Olwyn thrilled the congregation with her choice of songs, some very simple, but obviously sung with total commitment. The congregation in the well filled hall expressed their obvious enjoyment of the music provided, and a show of hands revealed that the vast majority had attended the Music School in previous years. Photographs on Latest Pictures Page.

Sunday 10 February 2008

This being the last Sunday before our Self Denial Missionary Appeal, the Brigade sang Hush Now in our Holiness meeting, bringing the song to the fore again after a break of several years. Although there were some intial difficulties with the backing CD accompaniment, the song was well received. In our Praise and salvation meeting the Brigade sang We Saw Love. The Brigade will be having a new photograph taken on Monday 10 march for our 90th Anniversary brochure. On Monday 17 March we will enjoy a long overdue Curry Night at the New Shimla in Renfrew.

Sunday 3 February 2008

The Brigade sang 'Somebody Prayed For Me' during our Holiness meeting which marked the commencement of our Self Denial Missionary Appeal. Tribute was also paid to Malcolm Cassidy who retires as Corps Pianist today. Malcolm has served in numerous roles as accompanist for Songsters, Singing Copany, Soloists and the Band Vocal Group. Malcolm and Anza travel to Australia for aholiday in Brisbane. We wish them well.

The Brigade featured an arrangement of the 23rd Psalm, The Lord's My Shepherd in our Praise and Salvation Meeting.

Friday 1 February 2008

Govan Songsters would like to thanks visitors from around the world who have shown an interest in our Brigade. The last year has brought visitors from 876 cities in 50 countries from England to Ethiopia. Whilst the highest percentage of our visitors come from the UK, this is closely followed by the United States of America, with a visitor from Santa Ana in California holding the record for the longest time spent on the site, 56 minutes, with a vistor from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia a close second. We thank you again for your interest.

Tuesday 29 January 2008

Our rehearsal continued last night with a number of items which have been revisited as we develop our repertoire further. A notable song being Andrew Blyth and Stephen Pearsons lovely Compelled By Love, with both words and music being very challenging.

It was good to have Elanor O'May joining after the birth of baby Bethan, and she bravely trusted the baby sitting duties to David.

Monday 21 January 2008

Yesterday being commitment Sunday, the Brigade contributed Alexander Addis' arrangement of 'All to Jesus' during our Holiness Meeting. The Brigade opened our Praise and Salvation meeting with Graeme Press' 'Singin in the heavenly choir' and later 'I'll not turn back'.

Tuesday 14 January 2008

Our rehearsals continued last night with more work done on new items for our repertoire, including 'Breathe', 'Arms open wide', 'Count Your Blessings' and Leonard Ballantynes lovely arrangementt of Precious Jesus to the Scottish melody Ae Fond Kiss. It was good to see Kevin Jefferson joining us again after a lengthy period of illness.

Sunday 13 January 2008

The Brigade were delighted to learn of the safe arrival of a baby daughter for Elanor and David O'May. Our warmest congratulations and we look forward to seeing them soon.

Monday 7 January 2008

This evening brought the first rehearsal of 2008, and at the start of the rehearsal time was spent in prayer as we sought Gods help and guidance for our efforts. We also remembered songsters and former songsters who are far from well. We rehearsed some new numbers for our repertoire including, Breathe, and Count your blessings as well as some recent additions, Singin in the heavenly choir and The Christian Mission

Sunday 6 January 2008

Our favourite Christmas Carol Poll has now closed with the clear winner, with more than three times the vote of the next favourite, is O Holy Night with 55% of the vote, Away in a manger second with 15%, and Silent Night with 12%.. Interestingly, O Holy Night, although the clear favourite, is seldom used in Carol Services.

Tuesday 1 January 2008

Best wishes for a happy and peaceful 2008 from Govan Songsters.